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In Memoriam
JUDr Rudolf Margolius 31 August 1913, Prague – 3 December 1952, Prague
"Never in my life have I heard or recognized a nightingale's song. Now under the window, outside, I hear every day, but mainly in the morning when the sun rises and in the evening at sunset, the beautiful solo song of the nightingale ..."
Letter from prison, 24 April 1952
"Margolius… survived the Nazi concentration camps and after the war enrolled into the Communist Party from the real conviction: that never again would be repeated what had happened in the past, that no one would be persecuted for his or hers racial, national or social origins, in order for all people to be equal, in order to establish an era of real freedom. A couple of years later the comrades succeeded in what the Nazis had not managed: they killed him." Pavel Tigrid, Kapesní průvodce inteligentní ženy po vlastním osudu, 68 Publishers, Toronto 1988, p. 97
The Scotsman reported on 16 May 1968:
"Czechoslovak President Ludvík Svoboda has awarded the Order of the Republic posthumously to Rudolf Margolius, former Deputy Foreign Trade Minister executed in 1952 after the Stalinist Slánský Trial. Margolius was accused of being a member of the “anti-party conspiratorial centre,” and was sentenced to death along with former Party Secretary Rudolf Slánský and nine others on November 27, 1952. Slánský and the others were judicially rehabilitated by the Supreme Court in 1963. All had been accused of high treason, espionage and sabotage and organizing a Jewish plot to bring down the régime."
JUDr Rudolf Margolius 31 August 1913, Prague – 3 December 1952, Prague
"Never in my life have I heard or recognized a nightingale's song. Now under the window, outside, I hear every day, but mainly in the morning when the sun rises and in the evening at sunset, the beautiful solo song of the nightingale ..."
Letter from prison, 24 April 1952
"Margolius… survived the Nazi concentration camps and after the war enrolled into the Communist Party from the real conviction: that never again would be repeated what had happened in the past, that no one would be persecuted for his or hers racial, national or social origins, in order for all people to be equal, in order to establish an era of real freedom. A couple of years later the comrades succeeded in what the Nazis had not managed: they killed him." Pavel Tigrid, Kapesní průvodce inteligentní ženy po vlastním osudu, 68 Publishers, Toronto 1988, p. 97
The Scotsman reported on 16 May 1968:
"Czechoslovak President Ludvík Svoboda has awarded the Order of the Republic posthumously to Rudolf Margolius, former Deputy Foreign Trade Minister executed in 1952 after the Stalinist Slánský Trial. Margolius was accused of being a member of the “anti-party conspiratorial centre,” and was sentenced to death along with former Party Secretary Rudolf Slánský and nine others on November 27, 1952. Slánský and the others were judicially rehabilitated by the Supreme Court in 1963. All had been accused of high treason, espionage and sabotage and organizing a Jewish plot to bring down the régime."
